Watercolor Painting: Alexandrium (IMAGE)

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Watercolor Painting: Alexandrium

Caption

Watercolor painting: A healthy Alexandrium (right up), Alexandrium infected by the parasite Amoebophrya (left) and the Vermiform of the parasite which break the cell wall of the host (right down).

Credit

Alfred-Wegener-Institut / [Yameng Lu, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)

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